Reply #47: Are you familiar with Sojourners?

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http://www.sojo.net/

I heard Jim Wallis last week when I was in San Francisco. He's very interested in starting a liberal evangelical Christian movement for social justice across the country.

He's written a book called "God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It."

I like what he's trying to do, although I find his evangelicalism something of an obstacle to accomplishing what he claims he wants to do: create a broad-ranging, religious coalition among the left for social justice. Someone at Wallis' talk I attended in San Francisco was gay and asked Wallis about gay marriage as an issue and the role gay people could have in Wallis' movement. Wallis seemed very uncomfortable answering his question and gave, in my opinion, an evasive response.

Still, what he's trying to do is so necessary today, I wish him and Sojourners all the best in getting this movement off the ground.